Something about this building just fits with Mumbles.
Posted on 07/13/2008 5:15:18 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie thread starting off with his Sunday Herald column
In Mumbles’ Hub, stuff ‘mappens’
By Howie Carr | Sunday, July 13, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Mumbles Menino - he’s not just your mayor, he’s your tour guide. Got the can’t-afford-to-go-on-vacation summertime blues? Is the price of gasoline, and in a few months heating oil, keeping you close to home this summer?
Mumbles feels your pain. Let’s go straight to the audio, all of which you can hear at bostonherald.com. As we join the mayor of summer, he is speaking at the Frog Pond on the Boston Common:
“These cost increases can get away-a havin’ summer fun ba only we let it.”
That’s right. Or, as FDR might have put it, “We have nuttin’ ta fear ba fear itself.”
So Mumbles, what would you suggest people do, if they’re flat broke and can’t leave the city?
“When you tryin’ to plot your summer fun, look for the oversized mappens, they’ll be at different lo- attractions across our city.”
Mappens? Usually I can figure out whatever Mumbles is babbling about. This time, I drew a blank, until someone pointed out that the city has been putting up, not mappens, but map pins, giant “oversized” map pins at alleged major tourist attractions. I actually saw the “mappen” on the Common on Friday.
Let us rejoin the mayor in his endless journeys across his city, beginning with the Celtics [team stats]’ victory celebration last month. Briefly, Mumbles was speaking coherent - OK, semi-coherent - English. The hiring of an elocution teacher was suspected. Next year is of course an election year, so the mayor has been revving up his political machine.
Recently, I even spotted a white-on-green Mumbles bumper sticker. He’s run so many times you can never be certain which campaign any sticker dates from, but this one wasn’t discolored and peeling from salt and pigeon excrement, so it may have been new. Green is the trendy color this year, ecologically, and basketball-wise. Right, Mumbles?
“Tomorrow’s a day is a celebration in our city. Come down to Bos - come downtown, enjoy yourself, give the Celtics the rousing ahh cheer they deserve arousing city, city, a rousing season in the city of Boston.”
The rumors about Mumbles’ elocution teacher quickly died down.
Cut to an awards ceremony for Boston educators, as Mumbles endorses . . . cannibalism.
“I’m really delighted to have eat your host . . .”
Listen, I’m not one of these scribes who makes up quotes. I don’t wear a bow tie; I don’t work for the Globe. I’m from around here. Please, check out the soundbites for yourself if you don’t believe these quotes. Let’s start again.
“I’m really delighted to have eat your host in our first ahh ever joint ceremony of to celebrate 2008 Boston Educators and Service Excellence Award Winners.”
Mumbles thinks a lot about the youth of the city. He’s been lucky, to say the very least. How many Bostonians who think “youse” is the plural of you are looking at a pension of $140,000 a year? So he encourages the next generation of boobs to get some book learnin’.
“But also ya know doin’ resumes the other thing they gonna teach ya on Friday are very important so if I, I was you it behooves you to be there.”
Kids, it also behooves you to - oh, never mind.
“You could be head of John Hancock. You could be the publisher of the Globe, and I’ll you when Mayor of Boston City of Boston you could be Mayor of Boston cause it all come from the same place.”
The land of Red Ink, would be my guess.
Another thing on Mumbles’ mind, such as it is. The homeless.
“Yes, the number individual homeless is - are down.”
Is, are, who cares really? Personalize the story, Mumbles. You’re in the South End, near the Pine Street Inn. You pick it up from there.
“I was out in Berkeley Street one day who was on the street beggin’, the guy I played cards with, cause he taught, turned into alcoholism.”
He turned into alcoholism? Haven’t you always wondered what alcoholism looks like? Mumbles, you better get another mappen down there to the South End, pronto.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1106662
Dontcha just love Boston, endless fodder around every corner! Howie does it again! Thanks Mumbles for all the laughs...........
An instant classic.
Mumbles will win in a landslide. Again. Sad.
People who run unopposed tend to do that . . . happens all the time in People's Republic type gov'ts!
Of course, last time he had a challenger. Maura Hennigan. I didn't know much about her, so I perked up a bit. Then I heard her on the radio. Talk about barking moonbats -- she made Menino look like Calvin Coolidge!
Something about this building just fits with Mumbles.
...none dare call it ‘brutalism’...
I do! Hah. Soooooo perfectly encapsulates all that is Liberalism, doesn’t it? Right down to the cold wind that rips across the plaza, right through your clothes.
Oh man, my sides hurt!
God bless the mayor of the schitty of Bos, uhh... downtown.
So, will there be a Death Pool sometime this week? I would be very surprised if no one picked Tony Snow the last time.
Not sure about Snow being in death pool...
Monday show ping
MONDAY JULY 14
1st Hour
Barack Obama’s campaign says a satirical New Yorker magazine cover showing the Democratic presidential candidate dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist is “tasteless and offensive.” Do you fine it offensive?
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WRKO listeners, etc.: Howie is on till 7 pm all week! Red
Sox are off till Fri night and even then the game isn’t
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Thanks to Sandy & Happy for the extra pod-casts lately
They are a big help when the Sox game takes precedent
Howie said a little while ago that no one had Tony in the death pool.......
Someone on radio-info board heard that WCRN is now running Dennis Miller tape delayed 7-10 pm (had been Michael Savage).
The WCRN website hasn’t been updated, probably because the site is run by Mike Roberts who I believe is no longer WITH the station. The show will prob be pre-empted most nights by Red Sox (and maybe Celtics too, later) but this week it should be on what with all star break.
from today’s Herald; the “Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final
today” file (was there a roof collapse at their house...?
a cost over-run...?)
http://bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view/2008_07_15_Amorello_story/srvc=home&position=5
Things just keep coming unglued for kicked-to-the-curb Mass. Turnpike chief Matt Amorello. Yesterday, his wife of almost 12 years filed for divorce!
Charlotte Amorello, 41, citing an “irretrievable breakdown in communications” at the couple’s North Shore home, is seeking custody of their 8-year-old son, new locks on their $658,000 Wenham manse and all the financial support she can grab, according to divorce papers filed in Essex Probate Court in Salem.
However, she’s not completely heartless. Charlotte is letting her hubby, 50, keep their 17-foot Boston Whaler.
The Amorellos would have celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary last Sunday. But, according to Mrs. A, who married Matt when he was a GOP state senator from Grafton and she worked as a secretary in the state’s administration and finance office, the relationship began to unravel in January.
Charlotte’s attorney Abbe Ross declined to comment.
Under intense pressure from former Gov. Mitt Romney to hit the road after a ceiling collapse in a Big Dig tunnel killed Milena Del Valle of Jamaica Plain, Amorello resigned from his $223,000-a-year post in August 2006.
What the hell took her so long to realize this guy is a sleeze bag,,,,,remember right after the accident this a$$clown said the tunnel was safe to drive thru.....we found out otherwise.....fat matt has no conscience, wth did Charlotte see in him to begin with.....
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